Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2002 · 23 citations · 15 references
Life SciencesPlant BiologyPlant SciencesPhotosynthesisPlant BiochemistryPlant PhysiologyLight HarvestingPhotosynthesis BiochemistryPhotosynthetic Energy ConversionPhotosynthetic Energy TransferPhotosynthetic PigmentsPhotosystem IiLight Harvesting Complex IiLight-harvesting PigmentsPhotosynthesis-light ResponsePhotosynthetic Light ResponsePhotosystem I StructurePhotosystem Pigments
A simple model of a plant photosystem has been constructed from a recombinant light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein (LHCIIb) of the plant photosynthetic apparatus and a covalently coupled benzoylterrylene-3,4-dicarboximide dye (BTI) as an artificial energy trap (see picture). Up to 85 % of the energy absorbed by LHCIIb are transferred to the acceptor.
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